Hair-curler.



A. A. WEST. HAIR GURLEB. APPLICATION FILED MAB..4, 1912.

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

county of Kings,

, though in this view the parts of the curler are disengaged. Fig. 3shows the method.

. witha hooked end 2 in STATES PATENT OFFICE.

nueusrus ALBERT wnsr,

OF NEW YORK,.N. Yi, ASSIGNOR TO WEST ELECTRIC HAIR CURLER 00., OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A

CORPORATION or NEW YORK.

' HAIR-QUEER. 1,082,784. spcificativn'vf Letters Patent Patented Dec.30, 1913. Application filed March 4,, 1912. Serial No. 681,551. To allwhom it may concern: tended to pass into the loop 2 and .be en- Be itknown that I, Ancusrus ALBERT gaged by the notch 3. All of these partsWEST, a citizen of the United States, and are of ordinary constructionand operate in a rsident of the borough of Brooklyn,

city and State York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Hair- Curlers, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of this invention is designed as an important improvement inmeans for operating or disengaging the locking arts of-hair curlersthatare secured by late ing, or those that are so constructed that;cermm of their parts are secured together by a transverse-.motion. In mywith this improvement I have-employed a curler such as was patented tome some time since, but I do notwish it understood that I confine thisinvention to this par-' ticular curler nor in fact to any particularcurler as I have found that it operates equally well with any of thenumerous de vices in this general class. I have found that there is adecided objection to these curlers because it is found that a continuedoperation of them will cause a slight soreness of the operating thumband fingers, and it is to overcome this objection that I have designedand executed this improvement, which is intended to facilitate theoperation and enhance the value of a revious hair curler patented to meMarc 28th, 1905, Serial #785,844. The following is what I consider thebest means of carrylng out this invention.

The accom anying drawings form of this speci cation, in which- Figure 1shows in plan view a curler provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 showsin .elevation the curler shown in Fi 1 a part of operating, the hand ofthe operator being indicated .in dotted lines. Fig. 4 shows amodification of the structure and Fig. 5 shows this modified structureas a part of a curler of somewhat different construction. Similarreference numerals indicate like parts in all the figures where theyappear. Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, at 1 I have shown the body portionof a curler provided which is produced a notch .3.- An eye or'loop 4connects the tongue 5, withthe body portion and a reduced extension 6 ofthe tongue 5 is inof Newexperiments a well known manner unlatching by adownward and transverse pressure of a finger placed against the part 5,at a point closely adjacent to the loop 2 while the body 1 is supportedby the hand of the operator.

As the parts of this curler must necessarily be made thin to obtainsufficient lightness and yet strong to operate with a desirable degreeof satisfaction, it is found that the use ofa number of these devicesone after another will cause a temporary soreness to .the finger of theoperator, I have therefore placed a hump 7 at the point where thepressing finger or thumb will engage with the part 5 to unlock .it, andI have so proportioned this hump so that it does not in any wayinterfere with the op 'eration of the device, the hair usually woundabout the tongue member 5 passing over the hump 7, without The hump 7may be formed from a piece of solder or softer metal secured upon theupper side of the tongue member" 5, or it may 'be an elongated rib 8punched or shaped from the tongue proper by having a portion of themetal from which the tongue is formed pressed upward or Outward out ofthe plane of-the tongue as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. This constructionshown in Figs. 4 and 5 may be the prefer-= able one as it does not limitthe pressure receiving space nor demand that the fingers of the operatorshall be placed at any particular point along the tongue 5. The hump orraised portion 7 shown in Figs. 1 and 2 may also be formed by pressingupward a portion of the metal of the tongue 5 and other modificationswithin the scope of the appended claim may be made without departin fromthe principle or sacrificing the advantages of this invention.

Having. carefully and fully described my invention what I claim anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

new article of'manufacture consisting of a curler having a part thereofhingedly connected and ada ted to be latched to another part and adhptedto be disengaged from said latched action by a depressing and atransverse-motion, said hingedly connected part being provided with asmoothly rounded portion extending upward out of Interference of anykind.

the plane of the part and arranged along of New York, and State of NewYork, this the centre; 1llongitilhuhnal line of tglehpaft bfi 19th dayof February 1912. tween sai inge connection an t e ate ing end of saidmember and away from the AUGUSTUS ALBERT WEST 5 edges thereof to assistin the operation of Witnesses:

the art as herein igecified. G. E. STERRITTE,

S1gned at New ork city, in the county ARTHUR PHELPS MARK-

